It's Judy-Lurkey Time!

Humor.

It's Bow Wow Wow!

Earlier this year Eric and I asked you where we heard this song before (Flickhead confirmed it was "No Hay Problema" by Art Blakey).

The answer? Bow Wow Wow's Aphrodisiac!

Ten points to me for getting the answer on my own!

"There is no Dana..."

Peter Becker Still Doesn't Care About Jacques Rivette

We'll post this again because it never gets old. Maybe someone at Criterion is listening this time.

And a big thanks to Eric and Kenton for putting this video together several months ago.

Bulle Ogier Talks Rivette

A telling interview with Bulle Ogier about her working relationship with Jacques Rivette:

Eric and I try to keep posting more clips from these interviews, so stay tuned.

Rivette on His Cahiers Days

Here's a Saturday treat for you all! Claire Denis tapes Serge Daney interviewing Jacques Rivette on his early interest in filmmaking, his days with Cahiers du cinéma, and his first meetings with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Eric Rohmer. A must watch!

Bleg! What's This Song Called?

Please, someone tell us the name of this jazz standard that plays over the soundtrack to this hip scene from Roger Vadim's adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Video: "Let the Love Come Through"

Apparently Ridley Scott directed the very first Burt Bacharach / Hal David music video.

Watch José Luis Guerín's Souvenir from 1986

A rough translation of the opening title card (and the subsequent cards that follow):

White clouds pass by Notre-Dame in an old film by Jean Renoir. And I tell myself, thus, these clouds crossed over there more than 50 years ago.

If anyone recognizes the pop song in the background please let us know.

"Lies fallow in the night"

Marianne Faithfull's cover of "Children of Stone" (featuring Rufus Wainwright) from her 2008 Easy Come, Easy Go:

Download the original Espers mp3 here.

Elmo Wants this Tape!

Turkey!

Musical Interlude

From Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore:

Wash those arms!

A 1959 soap commercial featuring Anna Karina.

They say this is when Godard first saw Anna.

Boy Gervais

Before Gervais gave us The Office and Extras, he was the lead singer of Seona Dancing (pronounced Shawna).